Morag Hughson presented many sessions at Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3. Here is a write up she did on her experience at MQTC v2.0.1.3.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aimsupport/entry/mq_technical_conference_in_sandusky_ohio

Morag Hughson works at IBM’s Hursley Lab in the UK on WebSphere MQ.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Well, that was a great conference (in my humble opinion). After it was over on Wednesday, my wife and I (and kids too) went to Kalahari’s water park, crawled into the hot tub and relaxed for an hour – boy did that feel good. 🙂

I would like to thank the attendees, speakers and sponsors for taking a chance on a brand new MQ conference. I truly appreciate all the positive feedback I received.

The goal of the conference was to educate people on MQ and provide some good food to people in a relaxing environment over a 3-day period. I purposely scheduled the sessions to be 75 minutes (to have a 20-25 minute Q&A rather than 5-10 minutes) and put a 15 minute break after each session, so that people did not need to rush from one session to the next. Kalahari has very comfortable chairs and couches along both sides of the hall, so that during the breaks, people can sit down and chat in a relaxing manner.

If people who attended went home educated, well feed and with a smile on their face, then I have achieved my goal.

The funniest part of organizing the conference was before the conference began, everyone asked ‘why did I pick Sandusky, Ohio, its in the middle of nowhere’. Once everyone got to Kalahari, they said great place and understood why I picked it (in the middle of nowhere). 🙂

So what’s next? Once I finish the paperwork for MQTC v2.0.1.3, as I announced on Wednesday, I’ll begin booking Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.4 for next September. 🙂 So, save a spot in your calendar for MQTC v2.0.1.4!!

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

I have updated the Sessions web page to include links to each session’s presentation (in PDF format). As I get the final few presentations, I’ll update the Sessions web page.

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Mark Taylor presenting ‘WebSphere MQ Disaster Recovery’ session:

Chris Frank presenting ‘MQ Pub/Sub Part #2’ session:

Lunch:

Bobbee Broderick presenting the ‘Multi-Instance Queue Managers’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting the ‘Base Queue Manager Hardening’ session:

Afternoon desserts:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

Breakfast:

Morag Hughson presenting ‘Monitoring and Auditing WebSphere MQ’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting ‘MQ High Availability’ session:

Lunch:

Richard Nikula presenting the ‘Understanding Queue Manager Message Performance’ session:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.

It has been a hectic first day!!

Busy getting attendees registered:

Breakfast:

Mark Taylor presenting ‘What’s New in WebSphere MQ’ session:

T.Rob Wyatt presenting ‘Certificate Management ‘ session:

Lunch:

Bobbee Broderick presenting the ‘MQ Best Practices’ session:

Afternoon desserts:

Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.